Lyrics of "Outside the Spring and Autumn Pavilion …" in Suolinnang

Storm outside the Spring and Autumn Pavilion of Suolinnang, a Beijing opera

Storm outside the Spring and Autumn Pavilion,

Where sadness breaks loneliness.

I can only see a sedan chair through the curtain.

It must be the newly-married crossing the Queqiao Bridge.

An auspicious day is a good time to laugh.

Why do you shed tears?

At this time, I understand,

There are so many rich people in the world.

There are also hungry, cold and sad arms,

There are also frustrated and crying.

when the people in the sedan chair play in a different tune,

there must be something hidden.

Peking Opera, once called Pingju Opera, is one of the five major operas in China, with Xipi and Erhuang as the main accents, accompanied by huqin, gongs and drums, etc. It is regarded as the quintessence of China, ranking first in China opera Sandingjia.

Huizhou Opera is the predecessor of Beijing Opera. Since the 55th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (179), the four Huizhou classes, Sanqing, Sixi, Chuntai and Hechun, which were originally performed in the south, have successively entered Beijing. They cooperated with artists from Hubei, and at the same time accepted some plays, tunes and performance methods of Kunqu Opera and Qinqiang Opera, and finally formed Beijing Opera through continuous exchanges and integration.

After the formation of Peking Opera, it began to develop rapidly in the court of Qing Dynasty until the Republic of China gained unprecedented prosperity. Peking Opera has traveled all over the world and become an important medium to introduce and spread China's traditional art and culture. It is distributed all over China with Beijing as the center.

The most representative masters of Chinese Peking Opera are Tan Xinpei and Mei Lanfang, who have made great and indelible contributions to Chinese Peking Opera. On November 16th, 21, Peking Opera was listed in the "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity".